Here today, gone tomorrow

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

9/14/11, 9:02 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 9:12 PM CET

Jürgen Stark quits a day after being profiled in European Voice.

Last week’s edition of European Voice contained a profile of Jürgen Stark, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank. A day after publication, Stark resigned from this position, apparently in protest at the policies that the ECB has been pursuing during the eurozone crisis. (The profile had enumerated some of the emerging tensions.)

Entre Nous hastens to point out that the profile page of European Voice is not usually so swift in dislodging the powerful. For instance, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves was profiled in October 2007 and he is still going strong, winning re-election last month. And Carl Bildt, who was profiled in October 1995, is still on the European stage, nowadays as Sweden’s foreign minister.